What are Olympic lifts?

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Erin Carson · Answer

Hey, Brett, I love this question because I love I love all the Olympic lifts and I say all but technically I guess there's only really two, they're competing in the Olympics right now. And that's going to be the snatch and the clean and jerk. I'm an endurance. Junkie. And so most of and I live in Boulder, Colorado. So most of my athletes are much more specific to the sport performance that they're working with the Olympic lifts competitive lifts right now for the games, are the snacks. And a clean and jerk, there's components to all of those that we still consider part of the Olympic lifting family. So we're really talking about front squats. We're really talking about deadlifts. We're talking about back squats and we're really looking for that explosive speed oriented rate of force development, lifting techniques with some of the Olympic lifts because of the inherent tightness, that we see in a lot of our athletes, we're going to actually our eight risk and so breaking them down into pieces to create strength within the athlete. Is probably a little bit more specific to the outcome than it was maybe even as soon as recently as five years ago. So we want to break down some deadlifts and we've even gotten to the point where a lot of us are going away from straight bar deadlifts because of the inherent risk. In lifting from the front side of the body, much more into a hex bar deadlift, which I don't think anyone would consider an Olympic lifts. So it's it's the competitive lifts and then it's the pieces that comprise of developing an athlete to be able to do something as explosive and speed oriented as perhaps a snatch where you pull all the way from the ground to all the way overhead. Is there, a performance outcome in swimming or running or biking from that lifts? The jury's out and I would Gander to say that maybe a single arm full snatch might be way more appropriate for sport performance. Than competing in the Olympics in weightlifting.

Bryan Doo · Answer

Hey, Ed, I just saw your question. What are the Olympic lifts? So Olympic lifts to me would be anything that you'd perform at the Olympics. And so now right now there's two of them, which are the snatch and the clean and jerk the clean and press used to be an Olympic lifts, but they took it away. It was just too hard to too difficult to actually judge it, you know, the the reason for Olympic list for traditional athletes are to create power and whole body movements. The snatch is a one motion movement. Whereas, the clean, and jerk is a to motion movement. So, but both are great exercises. I think it's hard for people to do them. If they don't work at it every day or, you know, often one thing that I tell my athletes all the times are is that Olympic lifters are athletes for their sport, which is Olympic lifting. So, you know, there's a fine line of how often you should use it and you know, whatever which people are using it.

Scott Dickinson · Answer

Can I bring Scott Dickinson? Here are by definition. The Olympic lifts. Are the two lifts that are performed at the Olympic Games. So those being the statue, and the clean and jerk. Now in strength and conditioning circles, people tend to use the term Olympic lifting to describe a really wide range of exercises that are all based on variations of those to lift the statue in the clean and jerk. So that can be anything from Um, a clean pool to hang shrug to hang clean or a hang snatch. Those are all different types of exercises that that fall into the framework of Olympic lifting.

Tim Crowley · Answer

Hey Brett, what our Olympic lifts? Well Olympic lifting is a sport in and of itself, which is an Olympic sport comprised of two exercises, the clean and jerk, where you're going from the floor to overhead and two distinct movements one being from the floor to a rack position of the shoulders and then into the overhead jerk. The second exercise is the snatch, which goes from the floor to overhead in one movement. Sometimes we get confused in mixing. In the the sport of Olympic lifting or weightlifting with using Olympic lifts for athletic development. It's using these lifts or derivatives of transition exercises that we can use to make ourselves better athletes. And the nice thing is they really both incorporate triple extension ankle knee and hip and a high-velocity movement that's going in One Direction you know in the clean and jerk we really have we deadlifts High pulls front, squats, push presses. We'll push jerks and other different derivatives of those whether it's a split jerk push press. And then in the snatch we can go from, you know, from a hang snatch, you know, to a an overhead Movement, we can also use dumbbell snatches. So I think these exercises can be used a lot and we do use them a lot and strength and conditioning to produce powerful and resilient athletes. But there's a distinct difference when using it for athletic development. And then there's the actual sport of weightlifting which is comprised of the two exercises being the clean and jerk and the snatch. I hope that helps

Jess Racz · Answer

Olympic lifts are ways to develop power output, especially with the athletes that I work with the problem with Olympic lifting, with my population as a basketball performance coach is I think there's more risk than reward. First. I only have an hour to an hour and a half with these athletes maybe once to three times per week, depending on their schedule. And so I'm trying to get the most of that session. I'm trying to be as time, efficient research shows that? Yes, it will improve. Power output but only if it's above 80%, So if you think of an 80% lift of like a power clean, like that's pretty heavy which means they might miss it at some point. And so if they miss that lift, there's risk for injury a lot of my basketball athletes. Also, it's very technical. So they we spend way too much time, just teaching them how to do the lift and then when you get above 80%, they tend to just muscle it up with their upper body and not actually getting that true hip extension. And most of My athletes always say their wrists hurt after. And so their wrist is absolutely needed for shooting and for passing they need their wrists. So and then research also also shows that not one like another alternative is in it's not it's probably the same power output but maybe a little bit more. So for example, like a tribe or jump I made I'm going to be able to get probably more power output and it's less technical proficiency. It's very easy to teach so I rather Do something like a trap board jump versus like a clean or a snatch because I think it just takes too long and I think there are better ways and better Alternatives that have less risk, especially when injury prevention is key.

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"What are Olympic lifts?"